Chamber and water bucket



(No Model.)

L. Z. JENKINS.

CHAMBER AND WATER BUCKET.

No. 357,390. Patented Feb. 8, 1887.

WITNESSES:

ll'Nrrnn STATE LANCASTER Z. JENKINS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

-CHAMBER AND WATER BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,390, dated February 8, 1887.

Application filed September 6, 1886. Serial No. 212,862. (No model.) I

.To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LANCASTER Z. JENKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and. useful Improvement in Chamber and lVater Buckets, which improvement is fully set forth in the fol- I lowing specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of a chamber and water bucket embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents an irregular"vertical section thereof in line a: m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

My invention consists of a bucket adapted for emptying slops and supplying fresh water where required, the construction and operation being hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents abueket, which is divided into chambers B O by means of a vertical division-plate, D. secured within the bucket. The chamber B has a closed top, E, to whicha screw-cap, F, is sethereof, and the valve J being in communication with both chambers B O. The valve stems or rods H J pass upwardly through the top E of the chamber B, and are provided with handles for operating purposes.

The operation is as follows: The valves are closed, and the chamber B is supplied with fresh or clean water, the bucket their being carried to the required apartment. The chamber-collections, dirty water in the bowl and basin, and stale water in the pitcher, or what is generally known as slops, are poured into the chamber 0, and the pitcher is replenished with .fresh water from the chamber B, this latter being conveniently accomplished without overturning the bucket and spilling of the water by opening the valve H, so that the water escapes through the spout K,after which, when the pitcher is supplied, the valve H is closed. The bucket is now carried to the wa- "ter-closet or elsewhere, the lid or cover G opened, and the bucket overturned, so as to discharge the slops, after which the valve J is opened, whereby water from the chamber B b enters the chamber 0 and washes the latter, thus entirely removing the contents of the chamber and keeping the bucket clean and sweet.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isy l. A bucket having a division-plate forming separate chambers and provided with a cock or valve forming a communication between the two chambers, whereby water in the one chamber may be directed into the other to' wash the same, substantially as described.

2. A bucket having a division-plate forming separate chambers, a cook or valve in con- .Valves, the other valve'forming a communication between the two chambers, the several parts being combined and operating substantially as described.

LANCASTER z. JE KINS.

Witnesses:

J oHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, A. P. GRANT. 

